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5. Towards a global environmental sociology? : legacies, trends and future directions

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Lidskog, Rolf, Mol, Arthur PJ, Oosterveer, Peter, Lidskog, Rolf, Mol, Arthur PJ, and Oosterveer, Peter

Abstract

A current debate on environmental sociology involves how the subdiscipline should conceptualise and investigate the environment and whether it should be prescriptive and deliver policy recommendations. Taking this debate as a point of departure this paper discusses the current and future role of sociology in a globalised world. It discusses how environmental sociology in the US and Europe differ in their understandings of sociology’s contribution to the study of the environment. Particular stress is placed on how these two regions differ with respect to their use of the tradition of sociological thought, views on what constitutes the environment and ways of institutionalising environmental sociology as a sociological field. In conclusion, the question is raised of whether current versions of environmental sociology are appropriate for analysing a globalised world environment; or whether environmental sociology’s strong roots in the European and US cultures make it less relevant when facing an increasingly globalised world. Finally, the paper proposes some new rules for a global environmental sociology and describes some of their possible implications for the sociological study of climate change.

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2015
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9. Transformations in Environmental Governance and Participation

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Oliver Fritsch, Mikael Skou Andersen, Dana R. Fisher, Mol, Arthur PJ, Sonnenfeld, David A, and Spaargaren, Gert

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Environmental governance, State (polity), Public participation, media_common.quotation_subject, Political science, Corporate governance, Stakeholder, Citizen journalism, Consumption (sociology), Economic system, Modernization theory, media_common
Abstract

This chapter focuses on how ecological modernisation scholars have approached transformations taking place in environmental governance and participation by social actors beyond the state. It considers the ways ecological modernisation theory has laid the foundation for the diffusion of new approaches and policy instruments in environmental governance. The chapter discusses how public participation, stakeholder inclusion and more broadly neocorporatist arrangements relate to these innovations. Transformations in environmental governance are required for the ideas and practices of ecological modernisation to penetrate the economy-environment interface more broadly around the world. The changes in energy systems that are required to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, in terms of production and consumption, and in human behaviour, will involve deep paradigmatic changes. Such changes provide opportunities for even broader interest in the principles of ecological modernisation, as well as opportunities for policy transformation. The chapter concludes by discussing the contribution that more participatory modes of governance could provide for institutional ecological modernisation around the world.

Published
2009

11. Towards a global environmental sociology? Legacies, trends and future directions.

Author

Lidskog R, Mol AP, and Oosterveer P

Abstract

A current debate on environmental sociology involves how the subdiscipline should conceptualise and investigate the environment and whether it should be prescriptive and deliver policy recommendations. Taking this debate as a point of departure this article discusses the current and future role of sociology in a globalised world. It discusses how environmental sociology in the US and Europe differ in their understandings of sociology's contribution to the study of the environment. Particular stress is placed on how these two regions differ with respect to their use of the tradition of sociological thought, views on what constitutes the environment and ways of institutionalising environmental sociology as a sociological field. In conclusion, the question is raised of whether current versions of environmental sociology are appropriate for analysing a globalised world environment; or whether environmental sociology's strong roots in European and US cultures make it less relevant when facing an increasingly globalised world. Finally, the article proposes some new rules for a global environmental sociology and describes some of their possible implications for the sociological study of climate change.

Published
2015
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